The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-01-12


AND now the Massachusetts, papers
have begun double-leading their ed
itorals on the senatorial question:
sure indication that they are getting
mad. 1t is uncertain who has the lead.
Governor Long has strong support, but
Senator Dawes appears to have the
greater number of the newspapers and
politicians with him.
SENATOR SPEAR of Braintree was
married December 20 to Miss Abby M.
Davis. Senator Swain has informa-
ton that this was result of a resolu-
ton, the last night of the session, re-
flecting on his bachelorhood, and also
that of Senator Fletcher of Cavendish q,
and Swain remarks that now Fletcher
has the floor" Serves him right, if it
is only good hard one.-Rutland
Herald.
MONTPELIER is an excellent loca-
ton for any manufacturing or business
industry, and we see no reason why the
town should not be properly recognized
in this matter. The capital has been
gradually left behind by other no more
eligible points in the state and must
scrape off the barnacles and take a
fresh start. In the first place, exter-
inmate the homemade bedbug whis-
key.-BWlington Clipper.
IT is distressing to see those two
vinegar-faced mugwump organs, the
Springfield Republican and the New
York Evening Post, quarreling with
each other. The way they are firing
paper wads and old-maidish explosives
at each other is quite too dreadful for
any use. Pretty soon they will arm
themselves with pop-guns and then the
mugwump gore will flow like shower
of icicles. -Philadelphia Press.
TIE horrors to which drink exposes
women are worse than those of slavery.
The sufferings of the wives and daugh-
tiers of drinking men are more acute
and constant than most men are prob
ably capable of experiencing. We all
know this, yet we 90 on calmly in the
old way, as if we either thought women
ought to be thus abused or believed
that, though the matter was pitiful, no
help could be found for it.-George
Frederic Parsons, in atlantic.
THE truth is that when set of SOL
diers are in the field, ready to act now
with one army and now with another,
nobody cares much for an expression
of their opinion. They used to be
called Condottieri The Italian repub-
lies, as they became rich and lazy and
full of mugwumps, used to hire them.
Things came to so fine a pass that
after one battle, where these gentry
had fought each other all day. there
was one man killed in one army and
one man wounded in the other-Sun.
ACCORDING to the New York Herald
the socialists have made up their mind
that DR.. Aveling and his wife are
apostles for revenue only. His first
bill was 81 300 for thirteen weeks work
and they paid the bill under protest,
wondering probably how much they
had got for their money. But whe N
DR.. Aveling returned from Chicago and
presented bill for $500, including $50
for cigars for himself and cigarettes for
his wife, S26 for postage stamps, 500
for theater tickets, S25 for corsage
bouquets and $40 for wine for two days
the New York socialists were mad, and
the chairman gave the doctor 500 and
told him to pay his passage back to
Europe at the earliest possible date.
THIS from Paris is somewhat sensa.
tional and improbable: Orleanist
papers report that the Crown Prince OF
Germany and Comte de Paris recently
met at Porto Elmo, Italy. They say
that the prince treated the comte as the
coming king of France, and preached
his ideas of ending the system of mill
tary ornaments in time of peace, which
he said, were rendering Europe unable
to compete with American trade anC
agriculture. A writer in the Mdtin af
firms that the prince further said: My
accession will be guarantee of peace
for it will mark an end of Bismarck
reign. Count Won Hatzfeldt will bt
made chancellor, and he will conclude
an alliance of France, England an(
Germany"
THE demands upon first-class jour
nal constantly increase, and its eX
penses can hardly be kept within lin
its when emergencies arise for specia
service. Readers want to be sure tina
they get all the news, and they wan
all the matter fresh, prepared for tn,
columns they peruse and with the sigI
manual of their own journal. The us,
of a" frozen NATTER" of stereotyp,
plates passed around from one sheet t.
another, the display of such stuff a
telegraphic dispatches and original,
the resort to flimsy devices to " fill up,
are excused by some publishers on tn
necessity of making cheap paper.
constituency may exist that is Statistic,
with such cold pieces. Utica Herald.
SOME comment is made at the sin
attendance of congressman at the Ney
Years reception at the White House
Only a dozen or so made theirappearanc
and congratulated Mr.. and Mrs. Clcve
land, while on the previous day ther
were at least one hundred fifty in attend
ance at the Logan funeral. Some peopl
are arguing that this forebOdes no goo
to the President and shows that eve
his own party representatives. think S
little of him that they will not take tn
trouble to call on him officially once